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git log show one commit id only

I need some help. It is possible to only show one commit id? Since git log -3 show the log from 1 - 3, I just want to show only 3. What possible command will match for it?

I use the command

git log -3 --pretty=format:"%h"

the result is

ffbef87
cf0e073
1c76c5d

I only want to display the 1c76c5d only.

Solution

  • You can use git show referencing the third parent from your current commit (i.e. the second ancestor from HEAD). Also, git show accepts the same format string as git log:

    git show HEAD~2 --pretty=format:"%h" --no-patch

    Update (2016-12-01)

    An even better way would be to use the rev-parse plumbing command with the --short option to output the abbreviated (7 characters) commit SHA-1:

    git rev-parse --short HEAD~2

    Or you could also specify the exact length of the commit SHA-1:

    git rev-parse --short=4 HEAD~2